The Anti-Defamation League’s Bearing Witness program for Catholic school teachers, will be the topic of the May 28, edition of “Catholic Forum,” the radio program/podcast produced by the Office of Communications of the Diocese of Wilmington. The guest will be Randi Boyette, associate regional director for education at the ADL’s Philadelphia office.

Bearing Witness is a four-day professional-development program held each summer at Daylesford Abby, the Norbertine monastery in Paoli, Pa. The program was designed specifically for Catholic school educators to give them the tools and information needed to teach their students about the historic relationship between the Catholic and Jewish communities, Jews and Judaism, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.

The Anti-Defamation League Philadelphia office works in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.

“Catholic Forum” airs Sunday mornings at 9:05 on WAAI 100.9FM in Hurlock, Maryland; and at 10:05 on WDEL 101.7FM and 1150AM and www.wdel.com. After it airs on the broadcast stations, the program’s podcast is available at www.cdow.org/communications and by searching “Catholic Forum Radio” on Apple Podcasts or iHeartRadio podcasts.

The late Dorothy Arthur, one of the founders of “Catholic Forum,” the radio program-podcast produced by the Office of Communications of the Diocese of Wilmington since 1939, will be remembered on the show’s Aug. 7 broadcast.

The program, heard Sunday mornings on WDEL AM and FM in Wilmington; WAAI FM in Hurlock, Md.; and by podcast, has a diverse schedule of topics to finish up the summer season.

The following is a list of “Catholic Forum” topics and guests through August.

July 24: Author Julie Cragon will discuss her book, “Visiting Mary: Her U.S. Shrines and Their Graces.”

July 31: Local author Michele Chynoweth will discuss her latest novel, “The Runaway Prophet,” a modern-day thriller based on the Bible’s Book of Jonah.

Aug. 7: Listeners will hear a tribute to A. Dorothy Arthur, one of the founders of “Catholic Forum” in 1939, who passed away last month at the age of 95. The tribute will include an interview that was recorded in 2014.

Aug. 14: “Catholic Forum” presents Michael Davidson and Margaret Consiglio from the Cathedral of St. Peter, who will discuss the historic church as it celebrates its 200th anniversary.

• Aug. 21: Dr. Lou De Angelo, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Wilmington, will discuss Catholic schools in Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore as students and parents prepare to begin the school year.

Aug. 28: Author and Mother Teresa expert Susan Conroy will discuss the life and legacy of the saintly woman who will be canonized on Sept. 4 in Rome.

Available on air, online and on demand, Catholic Forum airs Sunday mornings at 9:05 on WAAI 100.9FM and on www.1009purecountry.com; and at 10:05 on WDEL 101.7FM and 1150AM and www.wdel.com.

Bishop Malooly thanked officials at MTS Broadcasting Feb. 4 for years of broadcasting Catholic programming during a visit to the company’s offices in Cambridge, Md.

Bishop Malooly presents a certificate of appreciation to Shane Walker (left, operations manager, and Troy Hill, general manager of MTS Broadcasting in Cambridge, Md., on Feb. 4(Bob Krebs/Diocese of Wilmington).

The bishop presented a certificate of appreciation to Shane Walker, operations manager, and Troy Hill, general manager of MTS.

The four radio stations that are owned and operated by MTS have been airing programming produced or distributed by the Office of Communications of the Diocese of Wilmington for many years.

Currently, Catholic Forum airs on WAAI-FM 100.9 on Sunday mornings at 9:05 a.m. and Country Roads airs Sunday mornings at 6:05 on WCEM-FM 106.3, at 6:30 a.m. on WAAI-FM 100.9 and at 8:30 a.m. on Radio 1240 WCEM-AM.

During the bishop’s visit to the stations, he was interviewed by Hill for his Good Morning Mid-Shore public affairs program.

Radio was the church’s new evangelization medium 75 years ago, and lay people in the Diocese of Wilmington were pioneers on the airwaves when they launched the “Catholic Forum of the Air” on WDEL on April 9, 1939.

The broadcasting trail they blazed back then has continued for some 3,900 shows, becoming one of the longest broadcast religious shows in the world. Read more »

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